Worlds Apart
Blue Stone are among the dozens of electronica pop groups that emerged in the wake of Enigma and Delerium. Like those projects, Blue Stone manage to be upbeat and moody, lush but chilled, deploying insistent looped grooves, seductive textures, and exotic touches of chant, world music tidbits, and breathy singers. And that's just the opening track of their second album, Worlds Apart. Blue Stone are the brainchild of Robert Smith, who produces a similar project called Bella Sonus, and Bill Walters. Their interlocked sequencers, echoing atmospheres, and rhythms that gurgle and shudder like virtual tribal insect drummers, are fronted by vocalist Sheyenne Rivers. She walks the erotic/ecstatic line like a hooker attaining nirvana, singing heavy-breathing songs of love and vague mysticism. Her helium-pitched Greek chorus on "Far Away" is definitely a new wrinkle in the formula. A couple of other singers, Samantha Sandlin and Maura Hurley, handle the faux operatic arias of tracks like "Envy," "Voleti," and "Take Flight." Some of them recall, perhaps a little too closely, the alien aria from The Fifth Element, and even Yanni's take on the famous Delibes aria. With glitchy effects and an absence of blanketing synth string pads, Blue Stone take a genre that has drifted into the middle of the road and put a bit of edge on it--but just a little bit. --John Diliberto more
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-02-2008
- Rating for Worlds Apart by Blue Stone
Blue Stone is great - this CD is awesome - I'm very happy with this purchase! This type of music is what I enjoy the most, so I would recommend this to everyone with similar taste! You won't be disappointed in this CD. It is...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-02-2008
- Taken to a world I only dreamed of, until now!
A simply wonderful CD! Definitely one of my favorites of all time. All of the songs are great and the vocals are heavenly! I can't wait for their next CD!! If you like this CD, you might be interested in Balligomingo - beneath the...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-14-2007
- Soothing and Sexy
So I got both "Breathe" and "Worlds Apart". I like them both, though I gotta say I really like Worlds Apart more. Especially that VERY sexy track "Voleti" (what does that even mean? And do I want to know? Is it rated PG-13? LOL). Then...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-05-2007
- Good music
This is good music to have playing in the background while you work or entertain. The lady with the piercing voice who made Blue Stone Project so unpleasant to me was detected by me on only three cuts on this CD, Worlds Apart. On two...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-02-2008
- Rating for Worlds Apart by Blue Stone
Blue Stone is great - this CD is awesome - I'm very happy with this purchase! This type of music is what I enjoy the most, so I would recommend this to everyone with similar taste! You won't be disappointed in this CD. It is...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-26-2007
- Mediocre and Unimaginative
Very boring. Bland new age techno without any redeeming qualities. An appropriate place for this to be played would be in an elevator or perhaps convalescence home.
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